The success of the international climate conference in
Cancun appears to be a great (and desperately needed) leap
forward in the struggle to preserve our climate. At least
news sources in Germany marvel at the very much unexpected
and bigger-than-hoped outcome of the final declaration.

However, I keep wondering whether this could also be the
first big
success of Wikileak's power: what if Cablegate's timely
leakage of the US and China's double-game at the Kopenhagen
summit has scared their delegations so much they did not
dare to repeat the backstabbing of the climate conference a
second (or thrice?) time - in fear of their actions being
defaced another time next year?

If this was the case, one could either call this
Diplomacy
by Fear or Diplomacy by Transparency - I choose to pick the
latter. And if it indeed turns out Wikileaks had been the
prime source behind a success for our planet, nominating the
organization for the Nobel Peace prize does not look so
absurd to me as it did last week.